Out today in Visual Cognition - lots of cool articles on the theme of handling visual distraction!. Ours (w/ Zi Yang and @serences) uses "surprise trials" to show that visual capture is ~10x larger the first time we encounter a distractor .

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If you’re applying to grad school in neuroscience this year, you definitely should apply to work with Maggie!.

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RT @wjeffjohnston: When does modular structure emerge in neural networks?.What are the consequences of this structure for learning and beha….

RT @jonathan_daume: We are delighted to share that our new paper published today in @NeuroCellPress! We show that the persistent activity o….

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RT @Psychonomic_Soc: Deadline Alert: AP&P seeks paper submissions for “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Spe….

RT @TarazLee: Super excited this one is officially out! How/when can we suppress the urge to look at and attend to salient distracting info….

RT @smith_ke: Join us in the SPAN Lab! I will be recruiting a PhD student this cycle. Apply if interested in questions related to how stres….

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RT @MomonaYamagami: Excited that my postdoctoral work with.@jcmankoff.was featured on Meta's blog post! . We developed algorithms using sur….

RT @IndianaJonesSr: Next, we compared color and a much more cortically disparate visual feature: the coherence level of RDKs. Again, color….

RT @IndianaJonesSr: I've decided Joey will just always beat me to announcing my own work. Anyway, check out our new paper in the Journal….

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